DISINFORMATION BY THE SATHYA SAI ORGANIZATIONby Barry Pittard and Robert
Priddy with input from various contacts (Part Two)

There seems to be no end to the amount of cover-up and untruth
that the International Sathya Sai Organisation stoops to. It is
the whole structure of this wholly unaccountable organisation, its
established practice, leadership in general and the internal rules
they make which are at fault, and not
most members, who have no influence whatever! Click
here to see an exhaustive sociological analysis of this. Among
more recent incidents are the outright lies published on one of
their main web sites at http://www.sathyasai.org/news/2004/publicinfo/westminster/westminster.html
(since modified to cover up deceit)

UPDATE: Since
the above was written, the Sathya Sai Org., has changed
the content of their page (as it was captured by us, see
below) without any explanation or apology, which again demonstrates
their unaccountability and subterfuge. How they could have
posted such grossly false information "accidentally"
- as has been claimed (without any documentation whatever)
on the web site of an Australian, Alan Kazlev, is quite incomprehensible.
The Sathya Sai Org. of UK allowed this wholly untrue announcement
to stand for months, despite the reaction of the Westminster
Cathedral authority directly to its overall leader Bhagani
(see below), who has complete authority over the entire
UK Organization. It is worth noting that, only after our
web page was posted - and not until long afterwards - was
the page silently altered.

Instead, we view at their URL
a report on a Sai Organization meeting at Harrow High School
with Phyllis Krystal etc. This school - incidentally - is
NOT the famous Harrow Public School, but a very ordinary
mixed comprehensive State school with below average to average
standards over the last 4 years, according to State Inspection
Reports to be found on the internet). The SSO takes care
to point out that 60% who attended were not members of the
organisation. That they make a point of this is in line
with the SSO's constant efforts to misrepresent itself as
quite acceptable to a wider community. But this %age is
not at all surprising since most Sai devotees do not (wish
to) sign up to its demanding requirements. So the 60% majority
at this meeting would naturally have been parents and some
pupils.

The Sai organisation of UK shirks
its responsibility to inform the public honestly. The reference
to the Cathedral below implied Catholic approval when the
opposite is the case. We researched this through a contact
with Westminster Cathedral, while the SSO remained as silent
as the grave. If Bhagani did not know the webmaster, why
did he not reply to the Cathedral and say so? Instead we
are informed reliably that he still has not corresponded
with it at all. The inference was that he was content for
the disinformation. The Cathedral Administrator wrote to
Bhagani because he is the spokesman for this cult in the
UK. but he did not bother to reply, in classic cult fashion.
Let us see whether Bhagani dares to 'come clean' at last!

Below is a 'screen capture'
(made 09 April 05) of part of the original Sai org. web page:- The
relevant part of that web page was captured on 9 April 2005 so their
continued deceit can be observed - see further down. Below that,
a scan of another letter shows how the Administrator of Westminster
Cathedral wrote to Ashok Bhagani, leader of the Sri Sathya Sai (UK)
Trust to point out that the meeting they claim took place in Westminster
cathedral never did. (Moreover, promotional photos of the event
would have surely been posted by the SSO if they had possessed any!)
Though the letter was sent on November 29, 2004, it has never been
acknowledged. The offending, untruthful SSO web page has not been
removed to date. All further evidence of cultish non-accountability.
[Now that their continued dissemination of the untruth is exposed
here, they would be wise to remove the offending web page, whereupon
the above hot link would cease to function. That would be a step
in the right direction by them, but it would not expunge their responsibility
for this blatant disinformation and refusal to heed the polite request
from the Westminster Cathedral authority.]

Here is the reaction from Westminster Cathedral and the request for
removal of the offending, untrue web page:-

A predominantly
missionising and donation-gathering personality cult: There
are doubtless many well-intentioned and decent persons in the Sai
Organisation trying to do good work, and often succeeding too. They
are not individually to blame for the direction this extremely autocratic
organisation has taken and, knowing that nothing they say can affect
it, they mostly doubtless remain in it only because of their belief
in Sai Baba and the desire to do social service and partake in something
that may gain them some spiritual reward. It is just too hard for
most of them to realise or admit to themselves that their beliefs
are misplaced and that the overall head of the whole is a deceiver
and worse.